Sponge-holder



1 (No Model.)

N. MORRIS. SPONGE HOLDER.

No. 436,838. Patented Sept. 23, 1890.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

NELSON MORRIS, 0F WATERBURY, CONNECTICUT.

SPONGE-HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 436,838, datedSeptember 23, 1890.

Application filed October '7, 1889. Serial No. 326,236. (No model.)

full, clear, and exact description of the same,

and which said drawings constitute part of this specification, andrepresent, in

Figure 1 a side view of the holder in partial section, showing thesponge engaged; Fig. 2, a side view of the holding device detached.

This invention relates to an improvement in sponge-holders, and isparticularly adapted for use in washing carriages or for other purposeswhere a continuous flow of water is desired, the object of the inventionbeing to construct a holder which may be used without danger of injuringthe carriage while washing and without wetting the hand of the operator;and it consists in the construction as hereinafter described, andparticularly recited in the claim.

The holder consists of a tube A of a length sufficient to form aconvenient handle, and is constructed with a collar B, which isinternally screw-threaded to correspond to the standard thread on themale part of hosecouplings. At the other end of the said handleis afunnel shaped projection C, within which the holding device is arranged,and as preferably constructed consists of two wires twisted togethermidway of their length and bent so as to form an eye D, as seen in Fig.2, and from which the four ends extend diverging from the eye. The endsof the wires are pointed and are bent inward, formin g four hooks a, asseen in Fig. 2. The holder is placed in the funnel with its eye inward,the eye passing into the tube A, and so that the hooked ends of thewires shall be within the outer edge of the mouth of the funnel. It issecured in place by a screw E, passing transversely through the tube Aand through the eye D, as seen in Fig. 1.

I To introduce a sponge into the device the holderis removed and thesponge engaged with the hooks a and the holder reinserted into the mouthand secured, as above described. The device is then ready for use, andmay be secured to the end of a hose in the same manner as the ordinarynozzle. The water passes through the tube and through the sponge. Thesponge extends over the edges of the month, thereby preventing the metalportion from injuring the thing being washed.

To prevent the water from running over onto the tubular or handleportion A, as it would do were the device held in a nearly verticalposition, a flange b is arranged around the tube below the funnel-shapedmouth 0 and so that the water passing down the outside of the mouth willbe deflected and the handle will remain dry.

I claim A sponge holder consisting of a tube adapted at one end to besecured to a hosecoupling and provided at the other end with a funnel,and a sponge-retaining device consisting of wires bent to formdisengaging hooked arms for engagement Witlltllfi sponge, and an eye forsecuring the device within the holder, substantially as described.

NELSON MORRIS. Witnesses:

NnLsoN J. WELTON, WM. W. BARNETT.

